From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eu2QG-0008GB-D0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:47:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eu2QE-0008Fo-LE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:46:59 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eu2QC-0008Ff-VE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:46:57 -0500 Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eu2RY-0007wn-U7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:48:21 -0500 Message-ID: <43BB6EDB.8030706@vision.ee> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:44:43 +0200 From: martin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and configuration file? References: <200512312120.43014.bepi@adria.it> <200601032249.41640.bepi@adria.it> <43BB6224.9020507@vision.ee> In-Reply-To: <43BB6224.9020507@vision.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org I shouldn't write posts at 7-8am should be s/Certainly better every/Certainly better than every/ s/broken and compatible/broken and incompatible/ sry :) , you probably understood anyway what i meant ... martin martin wrote: > If we'd go for a config file at all with such a complicated structure, > i see no reasons why to choose anything else than xml for it. We have > tons of xml libs that can be used for gui's (think perl, tk, python > etc...). Certainly better every dude writing it's own XuPeRpArSeR that > will be broken and compatible after a major change in qemu ... > Another choice would be the pure rc (just 'item = value' lines) without > any supersmart blocks. > > xml style or rc style, please no hack in betweeen :) > > martin